“Both Google and Amazon have filed patent applications for devices designed to listen for mood shifts and emotions in the human voice.”

“In India, a group of activists successfully blocked Facebook from implementing a new service that would have effectively controlled access to the Web for huge swaths of the country’s population”

“The power of the Web wasn’t taken or stolen. We, collectively, by the billions, gave it away with every signed user agreement and intimate moment shared with technology.”

This interview with Ann Tyler from the NY Times is rather beautiful and made me realise I’ve never read any Ann Tyler (another one to add to the list).

“I don’t think living is easy, even for those of us who aren’t scrounging. It’s hard to get through every day and say there’s a good reason to get up tomorrow. It just amazes me that people do it, and so cheerfully.”

Talking of lists… the maths in this article are a little upsetting: “You simply have no chance of seeing even most of what exists. Statistically speaking, you will die having missed almost everything.” Don’t worry though, it ends on a poetic and positive note.

Finally, someone pointed me in the direction of 100 Useful Things, and now a really want a Leica M6 camera.